Chapter 539: The Finale of China's Unification
The small court meeting in the palace is being held, in the past, there was something to say, and it was dispersed after speaking, and the atmosphere was very harmonious, even if there was a dispute, it would be resolved quickly, but today it is a bit tense. And this dispute is not between the civil and military, nor between the monarch and the minister, but more like a moral trial, and the focus is on how to deal with the deposed emperor of the Jin State, the clan, and the remnants.
For the soldiers and civilians in Huining City, everyone has a unified opinion, because after all, these people are the rulers of the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and they are the places where the Jurchen tribes live, even if they surrender, they will not easily return to their hearts, and they will definitely try to restore the country, and they belong to the same clan, and once they rebel, it will inevitably cause a catastrophe. Therefore, Zhao Ta and the ministers advocated that they should all be relocated inward, and then emigrate from the customs to consolidate the border defense.
However, there are disagreements on how to deal with the former royal family, and some people advocate blood for blood, tooth for tooth, and slaughter all their royal family in shame; While others think that the Great Song Dynasty is a state of benevolence and righteousness, they pay attention to repaying grievances with virtue, and must not kill indiscriminately for personal revenge. Both sides insisted on their own views, and no one was willing to make concessions, and they couldn't make a decision for a while, but the emperor didn't say a word this time, and he didn't make a decision as in the past.
In fact, Zhao Tan's heart was very complicated at this time, the Jurchens went south twice that year, not only caused great material and population losses to the Central Plains, but also became an eternal pain in the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty by breaking through the capital and kidnapping the emperor. If you don't cross over here, then I don't know how many people are empty and sad. Now that he has come and done it, the Great Song Zhongxing has won the victory of the Northern Expedition, and according to the wishes in his heart, he really wants to kill the Jurchens like the Mongols in his previous life. Wash away the shame with their blood.
Zhao also thought that the genocide would inevitably cause resistance from the Jurchens and moral criticism. It caused controversy and turmoil between the government and the opposition. In order to prevent this from happening, he even considered doing it by fake Muslim hands. They served as jailers to escort the Jurchens into the interior. Zhao Ta believed that with the unforgettable blood feud between the two clans, these Jurchens might not even be able to go to Liaodong, and the rest would be a corpse.
"Your Majesty, it is ominous to kill prisoners. Qin Zhibai killed Zhao Guo and surrendered 300,000 soldiers, and finally ended up in defeat and death; Xiang Yu of Chu killed 200,000 soldiers, defeated Wujiang and killed himself; Emperor Tuoba of the Northern Wei Dynasty killed 50,000 Yan soldiers, but died at the hands of his son. Your Majesty, you must not act rashly and invite great disaster. Harm to future generations. Zhao Lian once again said that in fact, it was not bad for him to have this kind of thought, and the emperor had strictly ordered all departments not to kill enemy prisoners since he formed an army.
"Your Majesty, the Jurchen is different from the party and the Khitan, which not only harmed my Song royal family, but also killed the people indiscriminately. Think about how many generals in our army joined the army in anger precisely because their family members died in the Jurchen south, predicting the hatred of the country and the family, and if they are pardoned now, I am afraid that it will cause dissatisfaction among the army. "Gao Pet came out of the line. He advocated the eradication of the root cause of the bane, and the use of killing to deter the world so that they would not dare to resist.
"The murderer is always killed, and the teachings of the saints must not be forgotten. Your Majesty must not make a big mistake for the sake of momentary hatred. Stained by history. Right Minister Chen Yu stepped forward and said again.
"The Jurchens are tyrannical and unscrupulous because they have today's retribution, and killing them is also a matter of conforming to the will of the people, and they cannot be easily let go." When Zhang heard this, he immediately retorted. He has experienced the whole process of the Jin army's invasion of the Song Dynasty, and the tragic situation is still vivid. And hatred has been buried for twenty years......
The argument continued, and Zhao felt that both sides were reasonable. There is no malice, it's just that the experience is different and the position is different. But he knows that people in the rivers and lakes sometimes have to believe in fate. People are doing it, the sky is watching, and everything has retribution. If you say no, there are facts to follow.
Let's take my own family in history, when Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, pacified the world and did not kill the king. It was Zhao Guangyi's turn to kill Li Yu and force Xiao Zhou to poison Qian Yu, kill Dezhao, Defang, and Tingmei, and do all the bad things. At the time of the fall of Kaifeng, the fate of the Northern Song dynasty, that is, his direct descendants, is well known. If it weren't for his own family, he would have been able to repay this revenge for the rest of his life.
And how the historical Jin State treated the Northern Song Dynasty, how did the Mongols return it to them. And Yuan Shizu extinguished the Southern Song Dynasty, exempted the Song Emperor from the gift of being a prisoner of the sheep, awarded the boss apprentice, sealed the Duke of Yingguo, and supported the Southern Song Dynasty royal family with 1,600 catties of mutton per day, which can be called rich. Even if the Song people later rebelled under the banner of the Song Emperor, the Mongols did not take the opportunity to cause harm.
For the feud Jin State, Wokotai Hehan's order was: "Except for the Yan family, the rest will be pardoned." "It can be seen that the target of the killing is only the royal family of the Jin Kingdom. In the future, after Zhu Yuanzhang rose up, and after Emperor Yuan Shun fled back to the desert, his descendants continued for hundreds of years, isn't this evidence? In the providence of God, who dares to say that you don't have to pay for what you do?!
And the Jin State perished, and to be honest, no one misses it except the Jurchens. It is difficult to find any other shining points in the imprints it leaves in the history books other than blood, violence, and destruction. At least unlike Mongolia, the traces left by the Mongols in the history books, in addition to blood, violence, and destruction, also have a broad mind, a magnificent bearing, the same clothes of the conquered, and no restrictions on religion. And these also apply to Liao.
"The first evil will be removed, and the threat will be obeyed!" Zhao Ta thought for a while and said, if all the Jurchens were pardoned, it would be better than saying that his father and brothers in the clan would not let him go, that is, he himself felt sorry for himself for tossing for so many years, and he was sorry for his conscience. But if they are all killed, it is indeed too hurtful, and it is also contrary to the humanitarian education of the previous life, and it is not conducive to future rule.
"Your Majesty Shengming!" After listening to the emperor's words, everyone thought that the emperor had absorbed the opinions of both sides and lived a thin mud, but it was okay to take care of the mood of the avengers and appease the defenders.
After some discussion, the ministers agreed that Wanyan was the culprit and must not be let go, and all those who participated in the invasion of the Song Dynasty were executed, and those who died destroyed their tombs, and their families were accepted as official slaves. Of course, those who surrendered to the Song Dynasty after the Battle of the Northern Expedition were no longer among them, but they also had to be resettled in Guannai; All the other Jurchen tribes who were killed in the war against the Song Dynasty were executed, and their families were all resettled in the barren land of Lingnan; For ordinary Jurchens, they went to the northwest to settle down, participated in Tuntian, and guarded the border for the Song Dynasty.
It is indeed a little scratching his head for the treatment of Emperor Wanyan and his family of the Jin State, according to the conditions for dealing with the first evil, he is the most deserving death. But his identity is special, and killing him violates the precedent of Taizu not killing the king. But this is difficult for the Great Song Dynasty monarchs. really found a way, since Wan Yan Yan has already Zen position, the death penalty can be avoided. There is no escaping the crime, and it is necessary to take it to the ancestral temple to sacrifice the prisoner, and then it is necessary to confine him and his family in captivity. And the successor can only be sorry after Yan Kexi, and can only kill him to give an explanation to the people of the Great Song Dynasty.
Regarding the decision of the ministers to deal with the war criminals of the Jin State, Zhao Ta sighed and drew a circle, and then copied the report to the Queen Mother, Li Gang, Zhao Ren and others who stayed in Beijing. It's not that he is soft-hearted, but he is a little sorry for killing Yan Kexi, this thing is too capable, and he has contracted the work of many traitors in the former Great Song Dynasty, such as Zhang Bangchang, Geng Nanzhong, He Su, Sun Fu, Wu Qi, Mo Li, etc. If he is castrated, he will be able to serve himself comfortably. But now it is impossible, the imperial council has decided that Yan Kexi must die, and Zhao Ta can only endure the pain of cutting his love......
And in Huining City, Kexi didn't know that the butcher's knife had been raised high, and he was still busy making money for the 'godfather', of course, he didn't treat himself badly, Haodong ** got up a lot, and the other ** rose up, sent his cronies out, and looked for beauties in the city to enrich the harem. Seeing his son toss so much. Zong Qiang cried - the people are ignorant, and God must not be afraid! It means that you can toss your only remaining subjects casually, but what does the heavens think? When Yan Yan was there, he also knew that he would reduce the imperial diet and scatter the palace maids to do some face-saving projects, and you actually went into battle naked. I don't care about anything, and I'm not afraid of retribution... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ]